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Apparently one of the prosecutors was named Kyle Shideler, truth is stranger than fiction.

pissing and shidding and hitlering over people doing 4th of July fireworks in the wrong location

You’re reaching the fringe of this discussion!

No I’m not. Quit using the cloud to do your thinking/forum posting for you, it’s transparently pathetic.

You can always say “straight black hair, brown eyes”. Hair and eyes and height are common descriptors, and then maybe skin tone if necessary.

Someone who hasn’t met someone has nothing to describe them by besides “physical appearance” but that doesn’t mean trying to pinpoint their presumed origin.

Tasmania deftly evading American targeting while the rest of Australia falls victim

It’s not going to be a fair fight, those usually don’t exist and most warfare today is ambushing to some extent.

I don’t forswear the ambush, but my first priority is putting down a social structure that will outlive me. It doesn’t matter how many fascists I kill if the alternative isn’t built.

It’s quite likely that either before or after state collapse, I will meet my end by the bullets of reactionaries. I have made peace with that.

The Chinese government slaughtered a bunch of innocent people in Tiananmen Square.

In 1926.

“These chaos dragons, who want to reduce everything to amorphism in order to create anarchy in morality…”

That’s probably because it was included in billing instead of purchased directly.

Strangely enough, hospital cafeterias are often rather affordable places to eat.

The proportion of adult citizens who actively oppose the rabid expansion of the settler colony is well below 10%.

All things considered, it’s impressive how much restraint the Islamic Resistance shows.

If you’re federated with dotWorld, most of what you see in your All feed ends up being dotWorld.

Having the ability to not be under unaccountable admins, who can directly threaten your account based on activity or “patterns”, is a huge plus. Fewer bots, and fewer conformists; the conversation always feels a lot more personal and human. Also on the Fediverse, people tend to value privacy and security and self-determination. That steers a lot of the culture in a different way from Reddit, but most of the social environment is how the cookie crumbles on each instance.

they’re living out my dreams fr

I think it dates back to the 2020 primary campaign where she ran as a spoiler for the left. She rushed to be the first to declare candidacy, she tried to accuse Bernie Sanders* of defaming her and to cause a rift between her campaign and his, she stayed in the race when everyone else was dropping out, which was clearly a collusion to peel off voter share from Bernie while everyone else was endorsing Biden.

*Who then proceeded to not run in 2024, take a whole bunch of compromised positions especially on the first year of the Gaza extermination campaign, and do a few nothingburger “fighting oligarchy” rallies and tours that don’t even attempt to leverage any power.

There are plenty more examples of Warren being disingenuous and flimsy on progressive positions. On consumer protections and anti-monopoly stances she’s pretty good, but doesn’t amount to more than a machine politician outside of that.

If someone is going to be a successful progressive politician, they’d better take principled socialist stances, stick to them, and fight for them. Otherwise we just get an endless string of Obamas who defise radical movements, triangulate with the Republicans, and eventually their entire legacy is overturned by the next Republican administration.

This is how “ratchet politics” works.

Both those possibilities (20h work week and 6h work week) sound great. The prospect is either working less, or working the same amount and keeping the monetary value of your labor, as opposed to working full-time just to pay 3/4 of your income just sustaining your existence, which goes straight to landlords or bigger companies.

And if you can arrange a living that avoids the most common money traps, you can easily get by with 20 hours of work per week or less. I’ve certainly done enough juggling of part-time jobs to know this.

85% is a bit of an overestimate, but not by all that much. For the United States, total wages paid by companies to employees are about 11 trillion, out of a GDP of 29 trillion (stats from a year or two ago). This doesn’t count sole proprietorships and partnerships, but the high-end estimate is 62%.

@[email protected]’s implication that wealth follows linearly from income isn’t super rigorous, but it does match up closely enough in this case.

If you have a Materially Productive Job and you have the ability + information required to calculate how much revenue a worker contributes to the company, you’ll know that this checks out. I wouldn’t expect everyone to be adequately positioned and also care enough in order to have that insight though.

Nitpicking whether the executive and shareholders appropriate 85% or 50% of value is pointless. It’s a huge amount, it’s far more than income taxes, and it is the most important dynamic of the capitalist economy. And it is further corroborated with reports (from mainstream/orthodox sources) over the past year of how the majority of consumer spending is done by the rich.

This was exactly 1 day before “Pokemon GO-To-The-Polls”.

We had a user who would uncritically support Russia and Operation Z. A “Z poster”, if you will. They were banned on several accounts and no one really missed them.

Some of us tepidly support the CPRF, which is largely controlled opposition. We recognize that counting since 2014, there’s a lot of propaganda, civilian strikes, and land mines coming from both sides. Most of us favor an immediate armistice along the present LOC that follows pretty closely a “dividing line” for the plurality ethnicity as evidenced by the past 30 years of linguistic, electoral, and poling data. And we favor quick peace as opposed to continued hostility that likely will go nowhere.

It sucks that Ukraine’s self-determination is being jeopardized by Russia. It sucks that Luhansk’s self-determination is being jeopardized by Ukraine. It sucks that there’s a geopolitical standoff between the two strongest military powers that overlays this. It sucks that the only imaginable ruling party in Russia is a reactionary capitalist one that was ushered in by Clinton’s intervention. And it sucks that they’re all probably just going to die in a field to resolve it, and make the situation in Bosnia look like a vacation resort in comparison.

There is a silver lining in that we are seeing a great power struggle to subjugate its neighbor, and also in that the wearing down of NATO and Russia allows the less belligerent, more progressive, emerging superpower to have more sway in the world. Some might say that makes it “worth it” but I certainly don’t.